“I am delighted to see the young people of our land merging with the older people like me and moving in the same direction and understanding that our nation was founded upon the kind of principles that allowed us to rise from nothing to the pinnacle of the world in record time,” Carson said. “That was no accident. That was because of what we believe, including our Judeo Christian beliefs, that our rights come from our Creator and not from government.”

Carson decried the Marxists trying to take control of government and cultural institutions to indoctrinate America’s youth and change the country’s course — a movement Kirk and Turning Point USA fought.